Aarathi Prasad, a geneticist and mother of a mixed race child, sets out to challenge the ideas of racial purity and examines provocative claims that there are in fact biological advantages to being mixed race. Is It Better To Be Mixed Race? on Vimeo < View Documentary here It’s a controversial subject that has […]
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Was Queen Cleopatra Bi-Racial?
A controversial subject indeed. Cleopatra, the last Egyptian Pharaoh, renowned for her beauty, was part African? According to two reports her father was Greek and her mother was African. Remains of the queen’s sister Princess Arsinoe, found in Ephesus, Turkey, indicate that her mother had an “African” skeleton. Princess Arsinoe had an African mother is a […]
Read MoreOrigin & Meaning of The One Drop Rule
When was the first time you learned about the one-drop rule? The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States asserting that any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan-African ancestry (“one drop” of black blood) is considered black (Negro in historical terms). […]
Read MoreQUEEN: Maharani Bamba Duleep Singh aka Bamba Müller
Her Father Ludwig Muller was a German banker and her mother Sofia was Abyssinian, Ethiopian, African. She was born on July 6, 1848 in Cairo, Egypt. The Maharaja Duleep Singh fell for her charm & beauty, within 5 months they married at Alexandria in Egypt, on 7 June 1864. Both of them wore European dress apart from Duleep, who […]
Read MoreThe changing face of America
The newest generation of Americans is the most diverse ever, with half belonging to a race or ethnic minority group other than “non-hispanic white,” according to the latest U.S. Census data. Wall Street Journal By the year 2040, the majority of Americans will be people of color – the minorities will have become the majority. […]
Read MoreCASEY AKA The Case Facee
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Caucasian Father, Native American Indian & African descent mother. Currently in College. Casey, from Florida, shares her story and feelings about how people gave her a hard time because they didn’t see her as the ethnicities she was and how her most important identity is her personal identity beyond race or ethnicity. […]
Read MorePresident of the United States: Barack Obama with Family
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician serving as the 44th President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office, as well as the first president born outside of the continental United States. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, born in Wichita, Kansas, was of mostly English ancestry.His father, […]
Read MoreNew York City Mayor: Bill De Blasio with his wife Chirlane & children
De Blasio and his wife, activist and poet Chirlane McCray, met while both were working for Mayor Dinkins’ administration and married in 1994. They lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn before moving into Gracie Mansion, the traditional residence of New York City mayors. They have two children: Dante, a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School currently attending Yale […]
Read MoreCelebrities who you probably didn’t know are half-black
List of Famous People Who Are Half-Black. Every year, more and more people are born of parents of different races. Some very famous people have one black parent and one white parent, or any other ethnicity. Many of these celebs identify with both of their unique cultures. Several half-Black celebrities have gone on to have […]
Read MoreQueen Charlotte’s Mysterious Origins
Featured in The Sunday Times on June 6th, 1999 newspaper article. -D.Fizzman The connection had been rumoured but never proved. The royal family has hidden credentials that make its members appropriate leaders of Britain’s multicultural society. It has black and mixed-raced royal ancestors who have never been publicly acknowledged. An American genealogist has established that […]
Read MoreDoctor, Actress & Beauty Enthusiast: Linda Alexandrovna
Nationality: (St. Petersburg) Russian Ethnicity: Russian, Angolan and Portuguese roots. She was born in Uzbekistan. She speaks Russian and English. Quote: I love travelling, and I think the happiest person – is the one who travel…and who travel with the one she loves:) A few travel destinations Dubai, United Arab Emirates Paris, France Russia St. Petersburg […]
Read MoreInside America’s Black Upper Class
Debutante cotillions. Arranged marriages. Summer trips to Martha’s Vineyard. All-black boarding schools. Memberships in the Links, Deltas, Bouleacute, or Jack and Jill. Million-dollar homes. An obsession with good hair, top credentials, and colleges like Howard, Spelman, and Harvard… This is the world of the black upper class– an exclusive, mostly hidden group that lives awkwardly […]
Read MoreModel and Actress: Denise Vasi
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Caribbean Hispanic/Afro-Latina Her father is of Dominican descent and her mother is Greek/Puerto Rican. A Brooklyn native, Vasi signed to Ford Models at the age of 12. Quote: For modeling they said I was too tiny, I wasn’t Caucasian enough, I wasn’t African enough, I wasn’t Latina enough. They kept saying no but I kept moving […]
Read MoreBrazilian Model: Emanuela De Paula
Nationality: Brazilian Ethnicity: a White Brazilian mother and an Afro-Brazilian father. Born in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco, Brazil. She speaks Brazilian Portuguese and English. Quote: “I am what we call “mulata”. She has also stated she is one of the few black women in the fashion industry. According to Forbes, De Paula ranked the eleventh highest paid […]
Read MoreModel: Jasmine Sanders
Nationality: American Ethnicity: German and African American. She was born in Germany. BIO/Interview below: When I was 13 years old, my mom was confronted by my mother agent, Sheilah Dixon of Millie Lewis South Carolina, to come to the agency to meet her. That meeting turned into a test shoot, which later turned into those […]
Read MoreModel & Ex-Beauty Queen : Theolanda Franco
Nationality:Angolan Ethnicity: Russian & Angolan, African. She speaks 5 languages: English, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian and Spanish. Ms. Franco knows how to play the acoustic guitar. Moscow, Russia Moscow is the capital city and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is […]
Read MoreModel: Jennifer Marlies Wadl
Nationality: Austrian Ethnicity: Cameroon mother and Austrian father. She speaks three languages; German, English and French. Born Jennifer Marlies Wadl on December 10 in Austria. Being of mixed origins, she has experienced a lot of racism in her personal and professional life. What may seem as an obstacle too many has fueled her passion to become an international […]
Read MoreOrigins and Meaning of Mulatto
A mulatto is defined as: the first general offspring of a black and white parent; or, an individual with both white and black ancestors. Generally, mulattoes are light-skinned, though dark enough to be excluded from the white race. Several years ago, Jobling’s team found that more than a quarter of British African-Caribbean men have a […]
Read MoreMiss France: Flora Coquerel
Nationality: French Ethnicity: father is French & her mother is Beninese, African. An international business student, Coquerel conquered French people’s hearts with her words — she stated a desire to represent a cosmopolitan, modern France claiming that “today’s France is a mixed France, where there is every culture, and I think a lot of people […]
Read MoreLouisiana’s Creole
Many Creoles, however, are descendants of French colonials who fled Saint-Domingue (Haiti) for North America’s Gulf Coast when a slave insurrection (1791) challenged French authority. According to Thomas Fiehrer’s essay “From La Tortue to La Louisiane: An Unfathomed Legacy,” Saint-Dominque had more than 450,000 black slaves, 40,000 to 45,000 whites, and 32,000 gens-decouleur libres, who […]
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